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[Andreas Noteng <andreas@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Forwarding to ubuntu-bugcontrol list in the hope that someone is willing
and able to help.
Unfortunately my knowlegde of C is pretty close to zero, but I'd be
happy to help in any other way possible..

Andreas Noteng

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Subject: [Bug 701471] Re: Sync libevent 2.0.10 from Debian experimental
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:55:53 -0000
From: Krzysztof Klimonda <kklimonda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Bug 701471 <701471@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: andreas@xxxxxxxxx

I have tried rebuilding all the packages in both main and universe
against the libevent 2.0.10 in the
https://launchpad.net/~kklimonda/+archive/libevent2 PPA.
All but four did fine, but the failure of one in its unit tests make me
think that at least part of the packages that did build may not work
correctly. As for the packages that did fail:

* honeyd -- inactive upstream (ironically he's the author of libevent).
I have attempted porting it to libevent2, and I've done it but I can't
really test it as I have no idea how to use it so I can't tell if the
port was successful. I didn't have luck contacting upstream author (but
will try again)
* ladvd -- this is the one with failing tests (or rather a single test).
We can attempt fixing it, as it shouldn't be hard.
* python-event -- this one has inactive upstream, no packages depend on
it, we already have a python-gevent which is more popular and working
* lua-event -- this one is tricky. lua-event that we ship is a fork of
lua-event that has been made with single package in mind (prosody).
Apparently all changes from this fork has been already merged upstream,
and the upstream lua-event builds fine with libevent2, but Debian
maintainer is concerned with whether prosody works with it, so he asked
for some time to do tests. I also did not hear from him since then.

There is not much time before the feature freeze but, if I could get one
more person who knows C interested in helping me with ladvd, and
proofreading honeyd changes I've made, and if I got answer about lua-
event, we could make this transition.

My main concern is the fact that we'd have to check as many reverse
dependencies for whether they actually work - and even that may not be
enough, someone would have to subscribe to all those packages and
investigate problems (probably with the help of upstream) for the
possibility that their cause is the new libevent.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/701471

Title:
  Sync libevent 2.0.10 from Debian experimental

Status in “libevent” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Please sync libevent 2.0.10 from Debian Experimental main.

  Debian changelog since the current Ubuntu package:
   libevent  (2.0.10-stable-1) experimental; urgency=low

     * New upstream release
       Closes: 581221, 607984
     * Install libevent*.pc into /usr/lib/pkgconfig
       Closes: 569274
     * The man pages event.3 and evdns.3 are not shipped anymore.
     * Fix out-of-date-standards-version
     * Source format is 3.0 (quilt)
     * Pass parameters -Zbzip2 and -z9 to dpkg-deb via dh_builddeb

   -- Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@xxxxxxxxxx>  Sun, 16 Jan 2011
  18:19:25 +1100

  libevent (2.0.3-alpha-1) experimental; urgency=low

     * New upstream release

   -- Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@xxxxxxxxxx>  Sat, 21 Nov 2009
  23:35:53 +1100

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